“to confer, converse, and otherwise hobnob with my brother wizards”: slic, slainte and web 2.0...
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“To confer, converse, and otherwise hobnob with my brother wizards”: SLIC,
SLAINTE and Web 2.0
Celia Jenkins & Gillian Hanlon, SLIC
Why Web 2.0?
• Improving SLAINTE. Focusing on needs of community.
- Different ways of delivering content
- Encourages communication, participation & collaboration
- Enhances our resources
Tagging: Key features
• User generated keywords
• No controlled vocabulary
• Non-hierarchical
• Folksonomy
• No limit to number of tags
• Supporting fields
The great tagging debate: part I
• Enables “pseudo-faceted classification” (Speller, 2007)
• Creates a bottom-up consensus view (Shirky, 2005)
• Adaptable to changing vocabularies (Mathes, 2004)
• Facilitates serendipitous browsing (Mathes, 2004)
• Combination approach (Pattern, 2007)
• Evidence of tag consensus being reached (Golder & Huberman, 2005)
The great tagging debate: part II
• Synonyms and homonyms(Mathes, 2004)
• Ambiguity of uncontrolled vocabulary(Mathes, 2004)
• Specificity and the level of expertise(Golder & Huberman, 2005)
• Longevity of tags (Smith, 2005)
• Spaces and multiple words(Mathes, 2004)
• Personal versus social (Mathes, 2004)
Tag chaos
The source
Tagging: flickr libraries group
Tagging: Library of Congress approach
• Flickr pilot commenced Jun 2007 – live Jan 2008
• Two LoC photo collections added
• Dublin Core records included
• Tags applied by users – except “Library of Congress” tag
• LoC flickr record
A delicate balance
• Scalability - high cost of applying LoC approach
• Cognitive issues - unlikely that users will tag to standards
• Perception shift – not tagging versus cataloguing
Scottish libraries tag guidelines
The finished product: flickr
The finished product: delicious
Future developments
• Continuous development of tagging guidelines
• Building on existing content
• Work in progress: pod/webcasting, Facebook, live chat and surveys
• Overcoming legal barriers
• Integration with SLAINTE
Contact details
• References on del.icio.us
• Presentation on slideshare
• All available through pageflakes:
http://www.pageflakes.com/scottishlibraries
• email:
Celia Jenkins [email protected]
Gillian Hanlon [email protected]